It may have just been the coincidence of a migraine starting up earlier, but that was the first time I can recall being literally struck blind by clicking one of your links, ita.

Marathon on TNT today! Weird collection of disconnected episodes, but still. Show! All day!

I feel like I'm cheating on my bon rewatch if I go back further than S5. Silly.

Someone on IO9 was arguing that MBV was one of the worst SPN eps ever. !!!??! When I called him on it, he admitted he hadn't watched the whole thing.

In one scenario I'm surprised by the answer, because of the episodes that are bad...but if you turned off during the hugging scene, you can't back up your opinion with much.

It was a weird marathon -- the ghost ship, then Bugs, The Kids Are All Right, Death Takes a Holiday. It skipped all over the place. And unless they're going by some bizarre ratings algorithm for the choices, there was absolutely no theme to it.

Ghost Ship! Bugs! Why???

Looks like glorious_spoon thought the pills were for mental anguish according to her coda. Gen.

I shouldn't do this because other people's kids are in the picture, but I had to show off the mini!Dean sitting next to Sara in this picture. She's in the black and gray stripes.

It was a weird marathon ...It skipped all over the place. And unless they're going by some bizarre ratings algorithm for the choices, there was absolutely no theme to it.

I know! I was trying to come up with some sort of unifying theme too, but there was nothing. I picked up the marathon with No Exit, then The Magnificent Seven, then Fallen Idols, then the one with Jesse the antiChrist, and then the one where Sam wins at poker with the he!witch and Dean turns into Chad Everett.

I just rewatched this week's ep, and the Lisa bits were unsatisfying to me.

She had reasons for ending it with him in YCHtT. I can see her not wanting to go there about Sam, because that would be hard to talk about not under a spell. But Dean shoved Ben, and they never talked about that. The real reason for that is that supernatural danger follows Dean around--yet he says that's not it to Ben, that it's because he's a shitty person.

I get that he has low self esteem, but it just seemed weird to hinge it all on that. At least she accepted that he was a hunter and was going to keep being a hunter, even if she couldn't handle being in relationship with him while he was doing it. I hate when they have the partner throw out ultimatums because of dangerous jobs.

I also really like that Sam thanked Dean for his soul. I saw too many people saying there would be angst about that, than souled Sam wouldn't have wanted it back.

I get the reading that the pills were about physical pain. Not sure why Sam would have been surprised by that, though. They must have used purloined painkillers before. And he looked like this was new to him.

Aww mini!Dean totally likes Sara from the body language. I'd keep an eye on that boy.

Dean also told Ben that if he stayed Ben wouldn't have a choice at another life. But that's wrong because he raised Sam and Sam chose Stanford.